As I worked my way around the campfire in Baldur’s Gate 3‚ chatting to my companions to see which ones had dialogue developments that invariably would lead me to bedding them‚ a niggling feeling coagulated into a fully fledged thought—something that had been bothering me since my early hours with the game: why isn’t there a single companion there from the stout ‘little’ races? Not a single Dwarf‚ Halfling‚ or Gnomish companion in sight‚ and frankly barely any notable characters from those races to speak of in the game full-stop.